Mr Fish
Slippy sloppy, The
Hey now... Cucks are all right. That demographic overwhelmingly supports me.
So what lore has Bethesda done gone fucked up?
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RangerBoo
Resident Schizo Poster
Anthony Burch is the "writer" of Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel. He is a well known SJW who compared Gamer Gaters to child molesters. He's a class act. He also actively insults the average gamer in his games by stating that their stupid, misogynist and homophobic. Again, class act. He also recently stated that he and Gearbox are from now on only going to hire those from "marginalized" demographics, i.e hire someone based on their gender, race and sexuality, instead of hiring people based on their talents. God I hope Gearbox goes bankrupt one day.
So not hiring based on skill and talents.
That's what gets you garbage like Aliens Colonial Marines I guess ...
That's what gets you garbage like Aliens Colonial Marines I guess ...
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Earth
Vault Senior Citizen
It pisses me off that I can find articles praising Fallout 4 for having homosexual relationships yet there's next to nothing about Fallout New Vegas actually having well-written gay characters, which in my opinion is more important than being able to "romance" whoever you want.
RangerBoo
Resident Schizo Poster
Because it doesn't matter how well written a character is today in games. What matters is wither or not you are able to screw them. Priorities man! Get with the times!
Earth
Vault Senior Citizen
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I need a reason to like someone before I start fantasising about them romantically.
Ninja
Who?
I cream myself when a girl looks in my general direction.
Earth
Vault Senior Citizen
I'd have a doctor check that if I were you.
Ninja
Who?
The only medicine I need is love, baby. Sweet robotic love.
Earth
Vault Senior Citizen
FISTO reporting for duty.
Rangda
First time out of the vault
This has always bothered me, I mean, representation is great and all but making every companion bisexual seems lazy. To use Dragon Age as an example: Compare Zevran in Origins to the entire cast in 2, Just enabling everybody to be "Romanced" gives, at least to me, a feeling that the companions stories are just a mini-game to get to the awkwardly animated (and generally creepy) sex scene. It's really a shame that this seems to be the preferred option instead of writing true characters who are just who they are.
RangerBoo
Resident Schizo Poster
The average adolescent gamer is not like that though or at lest that is what the average game publisher and dev thinks they are. They want all the fat like characterization and character development cut off and to get straight into the action. That's how games like Ride to Hell got greenlit.
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MercenarySnake
Kept you waiting huh?
I get the same way.
Earth
Vault Senior Citizen
The average adolescent gamer is not like that though or at lest that is what the average game publisher and dev thinks they are. They want all fat like characterization and character development cut off and to get straight into the action. That's how games like Ride to Hell got greenlit.
In my opinion, this attitude of instant consumer gratification is what is keeping video games from achieving any status further than trashy pulp novels. People demand that their favourite new medium should be considered art but don't take any steps for it to reach that status.
It's why I hate Bethesda. Sure they're just another company trying to sell products like any other, but Fallout (again, to me, hence why I'm on this fansite) is one of the few game series to achieve a status better than just "fun time-waster".
We can talk about all the lore Bethesda's "done gone fucked up", but ultimately their biggest crime will always be dragging Fallout down to a worthless level.
ZigzagPX4
The Swiftness of the Ranger
http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/30/7951409/borderlands-writer-anthony-burch-leaves-gearbox-hulu
He isn't going to be hiring from any demographics anytime soon.
Not very nice to wish unemployment upon game devs, is it? So they worked on Duke Nukem Forever and Aliens Colonial Marines, which were coincidentally both huge piles of absolute, overhyped shit. So they developed the series that probably led Fallout to being what it is now. So what? I wouldn't wish unemployment even upon those of Bethesda Game Studios. Well, maybe some of them.
To be fair, I liked Borderlands 2 (which is repetitive as fuck) and I liked the Half-Life expansions they worked on (both of which were fairly uninspired), making me quite a little bit biased. But as far as I know, bankruptcy means the 280+ employees working for Gearbox gets screwed over, which is probably unfair. I guess.
Well, NMA does too, even if for completely different, much less inane reasons.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
Unemployment in the game industry is usually not too bad... there's always one company or two that would try to get the 'competitive' edge by hearing people who made 'great' games.
Depends I guess. Only if you happen to be one of those people who worked on a very popular project. The reality is that most of the game developers end up on stuff like Gods of Egypt, a game made to promote the movie, which is even more shitty than the actuall movie, done by companies who are as souless like the media conglomerate which owns them, forced to thro out one shitty product after another, like those website MMOs or candy crush clones.
Dr Fallout
Centurion
I thought we stopped making those type of games? Apparently not.
Earth
Vault Senior Citizen
There's a Gods of Egypt game? Awesome. Can't wait to shell out an extortionate amount of money for it.